Saturday, Feb 21 2015 11am

As Tropical Cyclone Marcia wends her slow way south, now a tropical low, the rain has reopened, having stopped overnight.
Here’s the story so far…

The graph shows how the rain stopped overnight (as the monsoon moved off) and the creek dropped, but it spiked straight back up when the tropical low moved in this morning. Our creek is very reactive to rainfall, once the surrounding soils are soaked. Click to view the graph now on the BOM site.

The Fourth Bridge is impassable – photos never look like much here, but trust me – you would not want to drive through this!

See that 1 metre marker? Yep, not taking anything through there today!

Water is flowing quite strongly from the cliff edge above the Green Bridge – the gutter should really run outside the road to the creek, not over the road like this, but we have little control over Council’s engineering decisions 😦

This is the cliff edge above the green Bridge. The engineering done on the side of the road is… OK. Still a bit of rockfall, still no where for the water to run to, although I suppose its better than pooling on the road.

Looking westwards, we can see the Green Bridge is just lapping – see that little pool on the right? Thats the water just making it over the edge from the creek.
She’s a good bridge, I hope she holds up to it this time!
In the time taken to process these photos and start writing this entry, the graph has risen (no one is surprised) so I expect the green bridge is now under

The green bridge, looking downstream – a roaring dangerous conflagration. And yet usually our friendly swimming hole. Amazing…

Green bridge, viewed from the car park. Not swimming time! Just about to overflow

Oops! We caught it in action (Get off the bridge, Dave!)

The Low Bridge is well under.

Only a couple of quick photos this time as we were doing a dash in order not to be caught away from home between bridges, with the Green Bridge about to go under

The property at the end of Massey’s Creek Court (hi guys!) has a dam on it – as you would expect with this level of rainfall, it is overflowing. Hope the wall holds! This water flows across Cedar Creek Road, coming out near the ‘pretty bridge’.

The pretty bridge on the side of Cedar Creek Rd is flowing well, and of course is standing up to it well. Now this is proper engineering!

Rainfall this morning is quite high – high enough to turn on the Cedar Creek Alert monitor. As you can see, the centre of the tropical low is moving East of us (you can tell because the numbers are higher there) so once this rain ends as the Low moves further south the creek will drop. Click here to view rainfall now on the BOM site.